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Her husband Keith told ABC News passing motorists had ignored his wife as she stood screaming at the roadside after running to get help.

Sherri Papini was found screaming at the roadside (Image: Facebook)

He said: "She screamed so much, she’s coughing up blood from the screaming trying to get somebody to stop.

"Just another sign of how my wife is, she’s so wonderful - she’s saying, 'Well maybe people aren’t stopping because I have a chain that looks like I broke out of prison' so she tried to tuck in her chain under her clothes.

"She had a metal chain around her waist. She had a bag over her head. She was chained anytime she was in a vehicle.

While speaking to the press, the lawman also told how Sherri had her blonde hair hacked off, adding that the unknown attacker was "a very sick person who may have wanted not only to cut it off to change her physical appearance, but also as to humiliate them, wear her down".

Earlier in the week Keith revealed that when Sherri was found she was covered in bruises, her blonde hair had been chopped off and she was "emaciated", weighing just 87 pounds.

In the statement given to Good Morning America, he said: "Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see upon my arrival at the hospital, nor the details of the true hell I was about to hear.

Sheriff Tom Bosenko said Sherri had a message branded onto her skin by her captors

"My first sight was my wife in a hospital bed, her face covered in bruises ranging from yellow to black because of repeated beatings, the bridge of her nose broken.

"Her now emaciated body of 87 pounds was covered in multicolored bruises, severe burns, red rashes and chain markings. Her signature long blonde hair had been chopped off. She has been branded.

"Sherri was taken from us for 22 days, and suffered incredibly through both intense physical agony and severe mental torture. My reaction was one of extreme happiness and overwhelming nausea as my eyes and hands scanned her body," he said.

"I was filled with so much relief and revulsion at once. My Sherri suffered tremendously and all the visions swirling in your heads of her appearance, I assure you, are not as graphic and gruesome as the reality."